Booka Brass Band have become something of an enigma. What started out as a group of young music students shyly addressing a bar full of revellers, has unforeseeably become an 8 piece band of professional entertainers and craftsmen, capable of not just grabbing and holding the attention of thousands of fans in a festival tent or at any number of their sold out shows, but leaving them with something that they are not about to forget quickly.

‘If you can only take in one new act this festival season, make it Booka Brass Band’ – The Irish Independent